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The Endorsement: Self-Googling

MEDITATION IS SO ANALOG. The digital path to self-discovery lies in another portal. Instead of using Google to find symptoms of monkey pox, type in your own name. Self-absorbed, yes, but it's also the only way to see the impression you've made on the Internet--one likely to affect potential employers and the Justice Department. You'll also discover Internet impostors. I've found the female Chris Kaye who works as a bank-loan officer, a lite-FM disc jockey, and the lofty "Head of the Programme Section of the Office of the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan." Not to mention an eponymous injection-molding company that provides solutions for squirrel-caused power outages. And since the second-best use of this cyberspace LoJack is Googling the ex, it gives me no small pleasure to think that former girlfriends might find said search results and assume that I'm making my living by saving the Third World, or electrocuting rodents. Awesome either way.